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Mr. Shakespeare’s Plays
On Essays and Letters Under the listings of Shakespeare, the Internet abounds in essays, reviews, texts, and comments, almost anything one can imagine about his works and about works explaining his works. My Viking Edition of Shakespeare comes to 1,471 pages. I...
The Odds According to Whom?
Intelligence Was My Line: Inside Eisenhower’s Other Command by Ralph Hauenstein and Donald Markle. Hippocrene Books (New York), 182 pp., $24.95 cloth, 2005. There cannot be many WWII veterans still active in public life like Ralph Hauenstein: nearly ninety-four...
Plucking Out the Heart of Shakespeare’s Mystery
Shadowplay: The Hidden Beliefs and Coded Politics of William Shakespeare by Claire Asquith. Public Affairs (New York), xviii + 348 pp., $26.00, cloth, 2005. With the publication of Shadowplay, Clare Asquith joins the growing number of scholars who maintain not merely...
Permanent Things Here and Abroad
The University Bookman has long been concerned with issues of the nature of history and historical memory. We are therefore pleased to present in this issue a major review-essay on historical thinking, by Mark G. Malvasi. Malvasi captures the complexity of the debate,...
Current Problems and Eternal Questions
This issue of The University Bookman engages several subjects close to the heart of Russell Kirk’s work and vision in founding this journal. The study of history helps us to determine the underlying reality, what Kirk called the Logos, of the human condition. In...
Our Neighbors and the Ground Beneath Us
We are very pleased to present you with this issue of the University Bookman. As befitting a quarterly devoted to serious books, the reviews cover numerous subjects with, we believe, learning and clear writing in explication of the major issues of our age. Continuing...
History and the Moral Imagination
Historical Consciousness: The Remembered Past by John Lukacs Reprinted by Transaction Publishers (Library of Conservative Thought), 1994. Review reprinted from The Sewanee Review, Spring 1969, Volume LXXVII, Number 2. Applying a philosophical intellect to the study of...
Kirk on Imagination
Mere unthinking negative opposition to the current of events, clutching in despair at what we still retain, will not suffice in this age. A conservatism of instinct must be reinforced by a conservatism of thought and imagination.
NYT on Kirk
Russell Kirk’s 1953 book The Conservative Mind gave American conservatives an identity and a genealogy and catalyzed the postwar conservative movement.
The Book Gallery
A collection of conversations with Bookman editor Luke C. Sheahan and writers and authors of imagination and erudition.
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